Bridge Engineering Handbook

Name: Bridge Engineering Handbook
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781439852088
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The Bridge Engineering Handbook is a comprehensive reference that brings together expertise from over 140 specialists across 14 countries. This extensive second edition is presented in five volumes covering Fundamentals, Superstructure Design, Substructure Design, Seismic Design, and Construction and Maintenance. It offers detailed explanations of bridge engineering concepts, practical applications, step-by-step design procedures, and updates with 26 new chapters. Included are over 2,500 tables, charts, illustrations, and photos that span innovative and traditional methods, rehabilitation, retrofit, maintenance, seismic design, and building materials.
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Ideal for practising bridge engineers, consultants specialising in design, construction, and maintenance, as well as students seeking a thorough reference in bridge engineering.

Description

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subject.

Published in five books: Fundamentals, Superstructure Design, Substructure Design, Seismic Design, and Construction and Maintenance, this new edition provides numerous worked-out examples that give readers step-by-step design procedures, includes contributions by leading experts from around the world in their respective areas of bridge engineering, contains 26 completely new chapters, and updates most other chapters. It offers design concepts, specifications, and practice, as well as various types of bridges. The text includes over 2,500 tables, charts, illustrations, and photos. The book covers new, innovative and traditional methods and practices; explores rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance; and examines seismic design and building materials.

The fifth book, Construction and Maintenance, contains 19 chapters, and covers the practical issues of bridge structures.

What’s New in the Second Edition:

Includes nine new chapters: Steel Bridge Fabrication, Cable-Supported Bridge Construction, Accelerated Bridge Construction, Bridge Management Using Pontis and Improved Concepts, Bridge Maintenance, Bridge Health Monitoring, Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Elements, Life-Cycle Performance Analysis and Optimization, and Bridge Construction Methods
Rewrites the Bridge Construction Inspection chapter and retitles it as: Bridge Construction Supervision and Inspection
Expands and rewrites the Maintenance Inspection and Rating chapter into three chapters: Bridge Inspection, Steel Bridge Evaluation and Rating, and Concrete Bridge Evaluation and Rating; and the Strengthening and Rehabilitation chapter into two chapters: Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Highway Bridge Superstructures, and Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks

This text is an ideal reference for practising bridge engineers and consultants (design, construction, maintenance), and can also be used as a reference for students in bridge engineering courses.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781439852088

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 January 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 84 Tables, black and white; 387 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Wai-Fah Chen
Edited by Lian Duan
Edited by Wai-Fah Chen

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1270g

Pages: 664

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dr. Wai-Fah Chen is a research professor of civil engineering at the University of Hawaii. He earned his BS in civil engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, MS in structural engineering from Lehigh University in 1963, and PhD in solid mechanics from Brown University in 1966. His interests include constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability, and he has received several national engineering awards. In 1995, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books and 500 technical papers. He is editor-in-chief for the Civil Engineering Handbook, the Handbook of Structural Engineering, the Earthquake Engineering Handbook, and the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering (CRC Press).

Dr. Lian Duan

is a senior bridge engineer and structural steel committee chair with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He earned his diploma in civil engineering in 1975, MS in structural engineering in 1981 from Taiyuan University of Technology, China, and PhD in structural engineering from Purdue University in 1990. His interests include inelastic behavior of reinforced concrete and steel structures, structural stability, seismic bridge analysis, and design. Dr. Duan has authored and coauthored more than 70 papers, chapters, and reports, and is the coeditor of the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering (CRC Press). He has received several awards, including the prestigious 2001 Arthur M. Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.